French Curriculum available now for Little Reader!

[marymoi]

Hi, 

i did everyting, try to click for the french... nothing.   Try to click for chinese.... nothing.  Also, the french trial says 63MB unlike the 100something i saw posted before.

Helpppp 

Im ready to purchase

[LM]

Hi
Can I be able to use my points to buy the French curriculum?

Thank you very much.

[LM]

I have also been trying to download French trial and nothing happens. Please help. I am also ready to purchase, i've been waiting for the French Curriculum , thank you very much for all your hard work.

[Lappy]

Hello everyone!

The French Trial is 127MB

We're sorry about the trial links not working! Something went wrong in the programming last week, so the trial link got changed as a result. 

For now, please download the trial through THIS LINK.

We apologize for the inconvenience, and we thank you oh so very much for your continued patience! 

[marymoi]

Hi, i dowloaded the french trial. But it tells me :

Imported files are incompatible with current version of appication.  Please update your application to the latest version.

The free trial i uploaded was last week.  It was either in english or in chinese.   So i erased the software from my computer to reinstal. 

I went to redownload the little reader software. it sends me to:there was a problem page and i cant download.   

Getting discouraged,  what am i doing wrong?

[Kezia]

Hi marymoi, yes, the French trial content (and even the full curriculum) is only compatible with the latest Little Reader software version, which is v3.1.1240.

Our server was down for a few hours yesterday, so perhaps you were downloading the installer during that down time. We apologize for the inconvenience that has caused.

Kindly try downloading the Little Reader installer again and it should work properly now.

[Mandabplus3]

Do you have any idea when we will be able to access the French curriculum on the iPad? I really want it for my big girls but it will have to be on the iPad. The que on the computer is already too long! Just curious if it will be sooner or much later?

[nrl]

That's great! What other languages will be released and any idea when? I hope the German content will be released soon.
Thanks

[Lappy]

Hi everyone!

I'm afraid that it may still take some time to release the French Curriculum for the iPad. It requires reformatting the whole curriculum to be compatible with iOS devices, so it'll take a bit. Before we release the French Curriculum for the iPad though, the good news is that we are in the final stages of touching up an update to the Little Reader Touch app, so you can all finally play the lessons using the game mode.

More updates to come soon, but rest assured we're working on great things for all of you!

[Mela Bala]

My husband wanted me to try the trial French curriculum before we made the purchase.  I wanted to share a video taken after two days of the trial lessons.  He has not been exposed to this language.  And now I must go lay our camera to rest since it met with an unfortunate tumble through the staircase railing.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/AagMiW16EMQ&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/AagMiW16EMQ&rel=1</a>

[TeachingMyToddlers]

Yes, the French curriculum is awesome! We tested it out and my kids were able to pick it the words so quickly, the games feature makes a *huge* difference! We love that feature!

[kiwimum]

Ok you have talked me into it, Im going to trail the french curriculum now also!

I don't understand why the Chinese (simp) trial doesnt have all the games and extra features, that would really good also. 

[elaida]

Does the French curriculum also teach the gender of nouns? If so, when is gender introduced?

Just asking, since I noticed that the words are genderless in the video posted by Mela Bala and I had just recently read the following post http://non-nativebilingualadventure.blogspot.com/2013/03/my-29-month-old-daughter-just-corrected.html (after seeing the blog linked in another BrillKids forum post), which brought home to me the benefits of introducing a second language early to children...that they can get the gender of words "hard-wired" into their brains so that they don't have to think about it, unlike those of us who learned languages later in life.

[Mela Bala]

Kiwimum,
The Chinese curriculum has not been updated to the new version yet.  To play the games I just click on session 1 or 2 and then at the bottom of the screen in the middle I click on the word game.  It asks the questions in English but says the lesson words in Chinese. 
I didn't plan on teaching him French but since he has had so much success with Chinese and English BrillKid programs thought I'd give it a try.  He loves it. 

Elaida,
I have no idea since I don't know French myself. 

[Kezia]

@kiwimum: Yes, what Mela said. We're still working on the v3 changes for the Chinese curriculum, and that's why the Chinese trial content isn't updated yet. You may indeed use the Game mode even for the Chinese lessons, although the game prompts will still be in English. If you can speak Chinese (or if you know someone who does), you can create your own game preset which has Chinese recordings for the prompts and use that preset when playing a game with the Chinese lessons.

@elaida: For the French curriculum, nouns are initially shown without the "le" or "la" article, just like what is shown in Mela's video. However when those words are shown again in the curriculum for the corresponding review lessons, the words will be re-introduced with the gender-indicating "le" or "la" articles. It is true, though, that the French trial content doesn't cover any of the gender-specific nouns - we'll look into updating the trial content so that it will also include the "Le/La" categories for the sample lessons.

I'm not a native French speaker myself, so to all native speakers out there please feel free to pitch in with a more detailed explanation! 

For those who already have the French curriculum: In case you prefer to show words with the "le" or "la" article from the start, you are free to play the actual "Le/La" category from Play & Edit > Categories. Under each French Semester's "General Categories" folder you'll find a "Le/La" folder which contains all the categories that have the gender-specific versions of the nouns.

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